Source: Channel News Asia
Singapore: …. When engineer Chua Kim Cheng saw the “People Search” function at the Red Nano website, he decided to test it out. He typed in his name and was shocked to see his particulars and address listed…
FOR a week, members of an online community known as the Singapore Security Meetup Group (SSMG) went onto the websites of various schools and came away with plenty of personal information, such as addresses and identity card and telephone numbers of staff and students.
A FORMER Citibank employee was fined a total of $40,000 on Wednesday for extracting bank and customer confidential information from the bank’s computer database and destroying documents.
A list of more than 8,000 user names and passwords for customers of Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, sat unprotected on the Web for the last two months.
… officials at the National Health Insurance Corp. had inspected more than 12,000 citizens’ private information such as home address, annual income and health conditions between 2002 and May this year…
… Among the victims are famous entertainers and politicians including Bae Yong-joon, Kim Tae-hee and even President Lee Myung-bak…
… Males searched the data to check whether their girl friends had an abortion. Employees collected home addresses to dole out wedding invitation cards…
… A recent Korea Information Security Agency (KISA) report showed that of 700 public offices’ Web sites, 54.1 percent or 379 were highly vulnerable to leaks. The report stated KISA collected more than 67,000 social security numbers through the Internet homepages…
Source: MOBTV Forum (Singapore)
A message from MOBTV Team. This is an example of how your NRIC can be misused.
Hi All,
It has come to our attention that some users had created accounts using other people’s NRIC number. Let us reiterated that it is an offence to use other people’s NRIC without proper authorisation from the rightful owner. In addition, such actions do infringe on the licensing and copyright terms. Let us remind all that the authorities would be able to track and identify the location (and residential address) of the user easily even if you’d provided a fictional address. We also understand the authorities had already taken action against some users.Sign up for any of our Subscription plan if you like to watch the videos on MOBTV site for a safe and happy experience.
Regards
MOBTV Team
The amendments to the IT Act broadly includes:
• New definitions of certain terms such as electronic signature, communication device, cyber café and cyber security, bringing more devices and services within the ambit of the Act.
• Role and responsibilities of intermediaries have been clearly defined; conditions under which they will be liable for third-party information are more explicit.
• Data protection strengthened through a new clause, 43A, that stipulates that service providers must protect personal information of clients while processing under a lawful contract, with scope for consultation with industry bodies for prescribing security standards.
• Penalty for breach of confidentiality under a new section, 72A.
• Cyber crimes, including cyber terrorism and child pornography, under new provisions of sections, 66A to 66F, 67A to 67C, and 69A, 69B.
• Protected systems under section 70 now declared as critical information infrastructure and protected through additional sections 70A and 70B that have created a nodal agency for their protection— the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team.
• Preservation and retention of traffic data and information by service providers and intermediaries under sections 67C, 69B and 70B for cyber forensic evidence and for analysis for new attacks on the information infrastructure in the country.
A new breed of terrorists are using online forums to recruit people who align themselves with the mission of Al Qaeda, creating global networks of would-be terrorists who pose a growing threat, a senior cyberterrorist researcher warned this week.
Source: Identity Theft Resource Center
The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2008 breach report reached 656 reported breaches at the end of 2008, reflecting an increase of 47% over last year’s total of 446.
“When the breach was discovered, IT staff immediately disconnected the
server from the Internet to cut off the intruder’s access.”